Abstract

ARRESE IGOR, Héctor. The idea of moral autonomy in the ethics of Hermann Cohen. Eidos [online]. 2010, n.12, pp.120-157. ISSN 1692-8857.

In this paper the aim is to reconstruct the rationale of moral autonomy in Hermann Cohens ethics. In order to achieve this aim, I consider the complexity of the concept of moral autonomy at its four levels. Mi hypothesis is that Cohens argumentation goes from the formal abstraction of the self-legislation to the concrete moment of the self-preservation. I analyze then Eggert Winters critic of Cohens concept of moral autonomy, who questions the integration of the levels of the particularity and the universality in this fundamental moment of the theory. Against Winter I argue that Cohens process of argumentation succeeds in connecting the different levels of the concept of moral autonomy.

Keywords : Autonomy ethics; Cohen; neokantism.

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